SCENARIO 1-1 The Manager of the Customer Service Division of a Major

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SCENARIO 1-1
The manager of the customer service division of a major consumer electronics company is interested in determining whether the customers who have purchased a Blu-ray player made by the company over the past 12 months are satisfied with their products.
-Referring to Scenario 1-1,the possible responses to the question "What brand of Blu-ray player did you purchase?" are values from a

• A)discrete numerical variable.
• B)continuous numerical variable.
• C)categorical variable.
• D)table of random numbers.

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Definitions:

Histogram

A graphical representation of data using bars of different heights to show the distribution of values.

Distribution

In statistics, the pattern or spread of values taken by a particular variable, indicating how often each value occurs.

Boxplot

A graphical representation that displays the distribution of a dataset based on a five-number summary: minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum.

Histogram

A graphical representation of the distribution of numerical data through bars of various heights.